Eye microsurgery
procedures we offer

No more reading glasses
(or distance glasses) – the PRELEX method

After the age of forty, many of us need to hold text further and further away from our eyes in order to focus on it. This phenomenon is known medically as presbyopia – the age-related loss of the natural ability of the human lens to accommodate, i.e. to focus on near and distant objects. It is associated with ageing and affects all of us. The solution is either reading glasses or refractive lens exchange, in which the natural lenses are replaced with artificial trifocal lenses. The method is called PRELEX (presbyopic lens exchange). Thanks to artificial trifocal lenses, the patient gains 100% visual acuity at all distances – far, intermediate (computer) and near (reading) – without having to wear any glasses at all. The advantage of this method is the permanent, lifelong correction of all refractive errors, as well as the prevention of cataract in the future. This eye surgery is suitable for patients over 45.

FEMTO Z-PRELEX

This method of replacing the natural lenses with trifocal intraocular lenses is recommended for people over 40. The surgery frees patients not only from reading glasses but also from their other refractive errors, i.e. from glasses for distance and intermediate (computer) vision. The advantage of this method is the permanent, lifelong correction of all refractive errors, as well as the prevention of cataract. Thanks to our technology, both eyes can be operated on in a single day. The procedure uses a femtosecond laser that fragments the natural lens into several pieces, sparing the surrounding ocular tissue. The femtosecond laser also opens the anterior lens capsule with a perfectly precise diameter of 5.0 millimetres – a step that, in conventional surgery, the surgeon performs manually with a needle or forceps. At the same time, the femtosecond laser creates a corneal access incision just 1.8 millimetres wide, through which the artificial trifocal lens is implanted. In the conventional procedure, this opening is made by cutting the cornea with a diamond knife. If the patient has a combined refractive error with astigmatism, our Swiss femtosecond laser from Ziemer can correct astigmatism of up to ±5 dioptres using arcuate incisions, i.e. precise incisions in the cornea. This method of correction is significantly more precise than the use and implantation of toric lenses. It is a minimally invasive operation performed without sharp objects or surgical instruments, which makes it extremely safe for the patient.

Other surgeries / procedures

The iClinic eye clinic offers the most comprehensive range of eye microsurgery services in Slovakia. It has modern laser technology and a top-class team of specialists with many years of experience. Visit us and we will solve your eye problem today – even without a referral from your ophthalmologist.